Nice chart on government shutdowns. I made it. 🙂

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/25/here-is-every-previous-government-shutdown-why-they-happened-and-how-they-ended/

Must see video on the future of advertising

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-naked-brand-the-future-of-marketing-wTo1reeNTNugBjR1Qj~gnA.html

Ok, so this is what we should expect for the week to come…

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-sp-500s-triple-witching-hangover-this-week-2013-9

The outcome of the German elections: the CDU was this close to securing 50% of the Bundestag (although not the Bundesrat)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/09/daily-chart-15

Very interesting story about seasonal adjustments in the labour market statistics! QE might have been triggered by it…

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/how-bad-data-warped-everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-the-jobs-recovery/279923/

Trade imbalances have declined over the past 4 years, but they are still a lot bigger than in the 90s

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21586838-less-skewed

Six myths about renewable energy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324432404579052900100464562.html

Speaking of energy….

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/09/paleoclimate-the-end-of-the-holocene/

Those interested in momentum/reversal investing: old, but a classic on the subject

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=687022

And talking about older: interesting report by Credit Suisse on the negative aspects of High Frequency Trading

http://www.forexlive.com/blog/2013/09/26/high-frequency-trading-measurement-detection-response-credit-suisse/

For the big bubble archive: “asset price bubbles and crashes are here to stay”. According to the Fed…

http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2013/september/asset-price-bubbles-theory-models/

And here is me thinking that The Borg were something from outer space… (check Malta)

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/

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